ENGLAND CAPTAIN EMMA WINS YORKSHIRE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

Emma (Duggleby) Brown, already announced as captain of the England team for the European women's team championship at
Fulford in her native Yorkshire in July, has this week become
Yorkshire women's county champion for a third time but the first two were as Emma Duggleby,
a three times Curtis Cup player, British women's open amateur champion, etc, who retired far too early from international golf as a player.
Emma Brown is now a proud mother of baby Jack.
The results of the county championship closing stages at Bradford Golf Club were:

SEMI-FINALS
Megan Lockett (Huddersfield) bt No 1 seed Ellie Robinson (Headingley) 3 and 2.
Emma Bown (Malton and Norton) bt Nicola Buxton (Woodsome Hall) 6 and 5.

FINAL
Brown bt Lockett 2 and 1. 
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REPORT FROM THE YORKSHIRE POST 
THREE definitely is a magic number for North Yorkshire’s most successful women’s amateur golfer, Emma Brown.

In her first top competition since giving birth to her first child, Jack, 

the Malton and Norton Golf club star defied rain-drenched elements 

to capture her third Yorkshire Ladies Championship crown.

Brown’s other two conquests – under her maiden name of Duggleby 

– were recorded in the years 2000 and 2002.

But this week’s completion of her hat-trick was not only equally as 

joyous as the previous two, but was also all the more impressive since  
the birth of Jack just this past winter.

To win her third crown at Bradford GC she not only seized the 

Mid-Amateur title for her stroke-play rounds of 72 and 75, she then 

majestically negotiated four rounds of match-play to lift the trophy for  
the third time and in what was her 13th Yorkshire Ladies final of an 

illustrious amateur career.

And all this with juggling the demands of motherhood. 

“By the time I’d finished playing it was back home to see to Jack,” 

she said.

“By the time I’d got him off to bed I was ready to go to sleep myself.”

However, the woman, who has also been appointed the non-playing 

captain of the England team which will compete in the high-calibre

 European Ladies’ Amateur Team Championship at Fulford GC from 

July 9 to 13, produced some of her most consistent golf to gather in 

her third county crown.

In the first match-play round, she accounted for Fulford GC’s Helen 

Barugh by an emphatic 6 and 5 margin before then edging past Holly 

Morgan (Lees Hall GC) on the 20th hole of a tense quarter-final.

“That was a really brilliant battle against a very good up and coming 

young player,” she recalled.

Brown’s semi-final was against former tour professional Nicola 

Buxton.

Coincidentally Brown and Woodsome Hall GC’s Buxton had played 

in the Yorkshire final some 21 years earlier when the latter won.

But revenge was sweet for Brown who saw off her opponent – now 

restored to amateur status – 6 and 5.

That put the Malton and Norton marvel into the final showdown 

against Huddersfield GC’s Megan Lockett in atrocious rain-lashed 

conditions.

“The rain was so bad that they (the green staff) had to squeegee the 

last three greens as we came along to finish the final,” added Brown, 

who eventually prevailed 2 and 1 to enjoy her third coronation as 

Yorkshire Ladies champion.

She said: “I played steady golf right through the whole week and 

when it got to the final we were so drenched it just made me focus on  
 each shot and not thinking too far ahead.

“It’s a great feeling to have won it for the third time, especially after 

not long having Jack and not being able to play any tournaments.

“With the winter being so bad I haven’t hardly even been able to 

bring Jack down with me to practise, so it was a great boost to win.

“It’s just as good a feeling as I had when winning the title in 2000 and 

2002.”